Good morning. As always, lots of stupid actions by lots of stupid people, and today there is a bumper crop of them.

Stupid city slickers? In a New York “gun-free” restaurant, the staff got held up by a three-man team armed with a machete. As Mama Liberty reminded me, naked steel IS a very frightening object to be threatened with, but the fact is, if the restaurant had any indication of armed staff or patrons, these idiots would not have used a machete. Of course, the restaurant is going to solve the problem by putting up more security cameras. That way, (assuming the attackers are not masked, of course), the cops can identify the thugs who butcher the staff and/or patrons in the next armed robbery. Seriously, how do these people even know how to breed?

Mama’s Note: Unfortunately, breeding does not require any intelligence or human qualities at all. Most of the more successful breeders in the world don’t even have much of a brain of any kind.

Mama’s Note: Insane, from every angle. As a certified self defense instructor, these suggestions are a big time FAIL for so many reasons I won’t go into it here. Just a hint, for now… when was the last time you paid any attention whatsoever to the car “alarms” that woke you up in the middle of the night? Most people simply curse the hapless owner of the alarm and go back to sleep as soon as it shuts off.

My advice to people everywhere? Buy a gun and learn how to use it. And then learn as much as you can about all the other things that go along with it – things that might very well result in never having to shoot anyone.

Space: “NASA’s effort to identify potentially dangerous space rocks has taken a hit.” The agency’s IG blasted NASA’s Near Earth Objects program, which is meant to hunt and catalog comets, asteroids and relatively large fragments of these objects that pass within 28 million miles of Earth. The supposed purpose is to protect the planet against their potential dangers. It appears, that like MOST NASA programs, it is intended to provide job security and funding by promoting fear and terror (like, I admit, MOST government programs in general). NASA also selected Boeing and SpaceX to rent “private” earth-to-orbit and return spacecraft to supply the ISS and other US manned operations in space (WHAT other manned operations in space?) starting in 2017. I notice (without surprise) that Boeing got 50% more than SpaceX even though the Dragon is a proven vessel. Now NASA doesn’t have to hitch rides with Russians flying 1970s vintage Soyuz disposable spacecraft.